>>>The word EN means AND but E in Dutch and A in English are pronounced the same.

Overview of "Het Nederlands" - The Dutch Language 

English Cousin

Afrikaans is a variant which originated in South Africa amongst Dutch colonists several centuries ago. Despite years of research, it is not yet known from which Dutch dialect or accent this sprung. Amongst its many idiosynchratic features, Afrikaans is the only other language in the world besides English to have only one gender.

As many languages do, Dutch reflects its historical roots and traditions in its many ex-pressions and sayings. Dairy farming has long been a pillar of the Dutch economy and has left its trace in many turns of phrase. "Don"t drag old cows out of the ditch" means approximately to let sleeping dogs lie, for example. The Dutch were also formidable seafarers and English borrowed many nautical words in past centuries, such as sloop, cruise and more recently, polder.

Dutch certainly has a rather unique approach to swearwords: sexually-based ones are less shocking, the worst being related to catching oaving nasty diseases, a hangover from unhealthier media eval times. The worse the disease, the more are insulting the curse, and the Dutch use a whole clutch of them: pleurisy, tuberculosis, the plague, smallpox, cancer... recently even Aids has been added to the
list. To call someone an "Aids sufferer", for instance, is a grave insult, so the system evolves  continually. This can all be a bit unsettling for the unsuspecting newcomer.